CFOs Share Their Favorite Books of 2016

Finance chiefs focus on numbers and strategy by day, but many still managed to carve out time to plow through books for business or pleasure this year.

One CFO sharpened his management skills with a series of profiles on unconventional leaders while another drew her inspiration from a tome on tenacity and passion.

A memoir of family life in a Rust Belt town reconnected one finance chief to his Mississippi childhood and another executive lost himself in a famous children’s book about a British veterinarian he read to his kids at bedtime.